The Telangana BJP leadership is hugely disappointed because the widely publicised street corner meetings held across the state have failed to produce the desired results and impact.
The party was supposed to hold 11,000 street corner meetings between February 10 and 25, but it only held slightly more than 6,000 meetings.
To conceal its failure, Telangana BJP affairs in-charges Tarun Chugh extended the street corner meetings till February 28 so that it could achieve at least 70 percent of the target, but still it could not reach the target. In fact, in the first 10 days the party managed to hold just 3,000 street corner meetings across the State.
State coordinator for the campaign K Venkateswarlu made lofty claims about street corner meetings and response, but once the campaign got underway, the lack of coordination among various leaders was exposed. The failure of the party to meet the 11,000 target was attributed to a lack of coordination among leaders.
People responded poorly to the street corner meetings, with the exception of party State President Bandi Sanjay and Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy.
The BJP leaders claimed that since the Mahabubnagar-Rangareddy-Hyderabad Teacher’s constituency election model code of conduct went into effect, the party had been having difficulty obtaining permission to hold street corner meetings.
They also claimed that the street-corner meetings could not be held in their entirety due to the Shivaratri festival and Chatrapati Sivaji Maharaj’s jayanthi.
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Interestingly, despite the poor response to the street corner meetings, the party believes that they served their purpose by assisting the party in making its presence felt across the State and dispelling the perception that it had no presence in some districts.
Following the failure to meet the target, Tarun Chugh is said to have directed that in-charges of all the 119 Assembly constituencies to organise huge public meetings in all constituencies on February 28.
The street corner meetings were held as part of the mass outreach program ‘Praja Gosa, BJP Bharosa’ and aimed to strengthen the party at the grass-roots and also target the BRS government for its alleged failures.
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